Title: Ernest E. Schwarztrauber Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1894-1953

Creator:

• Schwarztrauber, Ernest Edward, 1884-1950

Call Number: U.S. Mss 119A; PH 1613

Quantity: 1.4 c.f. (3 archives boxes and 1 flat box) and 41 photographs (1 folder)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Papers of Ernest E. Schwarztrauber, the founder of the Portland Labor College, director of the University of Wisconsin School for Workers, and former professor of economics at Carroll College, primarily relating to workers' education. Included are correspondence, 1908-1953; scrapbooks, discussion reports, announcements, financial records, student lists, and bibliographies pertaining to the programs and institutes of the School for Workers, 1927-1951; lesson outlines for a course offered by the International Ladies Garment Workers' Union educational department in 1923; outlines, contribution records, notes, and programs for the Portland Labor College, 1915-1926; miscellaneous speeches, articles, and reports; personal diaries, 1894-1950; engagement, address, and autograph books; and photographs, including portraits and collected images.

Language: English

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Ernest Edward Schwarztrauber was born December 25, 1884, on a farm at Greenwich, Ohio, and died September 15, 1950, at Pacific Palisades, California. After graduating from high school, he taught for four years in rural schools in Ohio. He obtained his bachelor's degree at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, in 1912. His master's degree was received at Columbia University in 1913, and in 1940 he received his doctor's degree in economics at the University of Wisconsin.

After serving as Y.M.C.A. secretary in Portland, Oregon from 1914 to 1916, he taught history at Lincoln High School in that city until 1930. A pioneer in the workers' education movement, he organized the Portland Labor College in 1921. He was professor of economics at Carroll College in Waukesha, Wisconsin, from 1933 to 1937, and served as Director of the Wisconsin School for Workers from 1937 until his death in 1950.

Schwarztrauber's life was dedicated to the cause of worker's education. Religion also held a vital place in his life, and he early came to the conclusion that it was his religious duty to study the conditions of the underprivileged and to work for their amelioration. He popularized the Wisconsin Idea in workers' education, serving as a link between educators, labor groups, and religious organizations.

This collection consists of correspondence, 1908-1953; files pertaining to the University of Wisconsin School for Workers and to Portland Labor College, and courses, outlines, speeches, articles, and reports on workers' education. A third box consists of Schwarztrauber's original longhand diaries, notebook, autograph book, and a folder of miscellaneous manuscripts. The photographs are filed at call number PH 1613.

Acquisition Information

Presented by Mrs. Ernest E. Schwarztrauber, Santa Monica, California, September 22, 1955, and July 11, 1960.

U.S. Mss 119A Box   1	Correspondence, 1908-1953 Physical Description: 4 folders
Box   1	Miscellaneous file: Suggestions for improving the Teachers' Training Center and attendance records
	University of Wisconsin School for Workers
Box   1	Summer Institute announcements and bulletins, 1950
Box   2	1929-1936 Documents Scope and Content Note: Includes papers on teachers' training seminar, reports of discussions in classes, lists of students and their occupations, budget for school, financial statement, statement of receipts and disbursements, and bibliography on social literature.
	Scrapbooks regarding School for Workers
Box   4 Volume   14	1927, June - 1936, August
Box   4 Volume   15	Summer 1951
Box   2	Notes on European Tour and list of those in party, 1925
Box   2	International Ladies Garment Workers' Union, educational department: Lesson outlines for course offered by the Union, January 5, 1923 - February 17, 1923
Box   2	Portland Labor College files, 1915-1926 Scope and Content Note: Includes a program of Labor College plays, statements of contributions to Labor College, 1925, and outline notes on labor education.
Box   2	Speeches, Articles, and Reports Scope and Content Note: Concerning Rural Y.M.C.A., student life at Columbia University, Portland Labor College, and the workers' education movement.
	Diaries
Box   3	Diary (excerpts and selections), June 6, 1894 - October 20, 1921 Scope and Content Note: Typewritten copies of his diaries dealing with his college life at Miami University, his religious duty, Y.M.C.A. work, and high school teaching.
Box   3 Volume   1-11	Original longhand diaries, 1894-1950
Box   3 Volume   12	Notebook Scope and Content Note: Contains names, addresses, engagements, and miscellaneous notes.
Box   3 Volume   13	Autograph Book
PH 1613	Photographs